Oh. My. God. It’s me when I was in school. Same hairstyle and freaked out classmates and everything.

I frequently got into fights with my history teachers because my dad was a major history buff, and as such I heard a lot of how things REALLY went down, not the watered down pc’ed versions we heard in school, and when they started telling us the watered down version or giving us stories that have been proven to be lies, like the whole chopping down the cherry tree and the way Paul Revere’s ride really went, I was the student that was like “THAT’S BULLSHIT.” And corrected the teachers quite loudly and vehemently.

I spent a lot of time at the principal’s office.

Also, SYBIL LUDINGTON DESERVES MORE RECOGNITION THAN REVERE. He never even COMPLETED his ride, and she was sixteen, riding sidesaddle, in the dark, over fourty miles, ALONE.

Ever since I started reading the Paul Reveres, I can’t quite think of him as anything other than an emo guitar player…anyway, you’ve reminded me of this: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=139. I bet if Sybil Ludington had been there she’d have won.

She would have kicked BOTH their butts. No question. I mean, have you ever ridden sidesaddle? Do you know how HARD that is even at a walk, and how uncomfortable? And she rode sidesaddle fourty miles, in the dark, through hostile territory, probably at a canter at LEAST, if not a full gallop.